Seminars

Monday, February 16, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Ngoc Mai Tran

Random Subdivisions & Neural Coding

Monday, March 15, 2021 - 4:00pm

Mariya Toneva

Title: Data-Driven Transfer of Insight between Brains and AI Systems

Monday, December 4, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Andrea Montanari

Inference and sampling via diffusion processes

Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 8:45am to Saturday, May 9, 2015 - 12:00pm

NSF Workshop for Empirical Process and Modern Statistical Decision Theory

Monday, October 28, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Arash Ali Amini

Pseudo-likelihood methods for community detection in large sparse networks

Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Song Mei

Generalization Error of Linearized Neural Networks: Staircase and Double-descent.

Monday, January 23, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Dan Mikulincer

Title: Universality phenomena in high-dimensions

Monday, September 25, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yudong Chen

Monday, April 1, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Dean Foster

Linear methods for large regressions

Friday, April 19, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Martin Renqiang Min

Adaptive Deep Representation Learning for Understanding Video and Natural Language

Monday, February 28, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Lihua Lei

Title: What Can Conformal Inference Offer To Statistics?

Monday, December 14, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Stefan Wager

Statistical Estimation with Random Forests

Friday, February 20, 2015 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Jessi Cisewski

Approximate Bayesian Computation for the stellar initial mass function

Monday, March 8, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Yuxin Chen

Title: Taming Nonconvexity in Statistical and Reinforcement Learning

Monday, January 22, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Mikhail Belkin

Toward a practical theory of deep learning

Friday, December 11, 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

2015 Hartigan Lecture

Monday, November 11, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

John C. Duchi

Local Privacy and Statistical Minimax Rates

Monday, February 3, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

S&DS|CS JOINT SEMINAR, Simon S. Du

Foundations of Learning Systems with (Deep) Function Approximators

Monday, January 30, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Ruishan Liu

Title: Machine learning for precision medicine

Friday, September 8, 2017 - 11:00am

Alexander Meister

Nonparametric density estimation for intentionally corrupted functional data

Monday, April 15, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Andrew Nobels

Large Average Submatrices of a Gaussian Random Matrix: Landscapes and Local Optima

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Bin Yu

Three principles of data science: predictability, computability, and stability (PCS)

Monday, February 14, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Gonzalo E. Mena

Title: What can statisticians learn from the analysis of C.elegans data?

Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Lester Mackey

Measuring Sample Quality with Stein's Method

Monday, February 9, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Eric C. Chi

Convex Clustering

Friday, April 2, 2021 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Title: Semiparametric Proximal Causal Inference

Monday, April 1, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Mingyuan Zhou

Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation

Friday, October 20, 2017 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

The First Data Science Workshop “Computational Social Science”

Monday, November 18, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Arian Maleki

From compression to compressed sensing

Monday, February 17, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Yixin Wang

The Blessings of Multiple Causes

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Frederic Koehler

Title: Towards the Statistically Principled Design of ML Algorithms

Monday, September 18, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Harlan M Krumholz

Monday, December 3, 2012 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Wei Biao Wu

Covariance and Precision Matrix Estimation for High-Dimensional Time Series

Monday, January 14, 2019 - 3:45pm to 5:00pm

S&DS

Statistics and Data Science Project Pitch

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Kuikui Liu

Title: Spectral Independence: A New Tool to Analyze Markov Chains

Monday, February 1, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Weijie Su

Multiple Testing and Adaptive Estimation via the Sorted L-One Norm

Monday, April 13, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sushant Sachdeva

Algorithms for Lipschitz Learning on Graphs

Monday, May 17, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Jenna Wiens

Title: From Diagnosis to Treatment - Augmenting Clinical Decision Making with Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Ankur Moitra

Learning from Dynamics

Monday, April 30, 2018 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

S&DS

First Annual S&DS Poster Session

Monday, December 9, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

David L. Donoho

Title: (M)-estimation Under 'Big Data' Asymptotics: The Extra Noise Phenomenon characterized by Approximate Message Passing

Monday, February 24, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

S&DS|CS Joint Seminar, Emma Pierson

Data science methods to reduce inequality and improve healthcare

Monday, February 6, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Raaz Dwivedi

Title: From HeartSteps to HeartBeats: Personalized Decision-making

Monday, October 9, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Donald Lee

Boosting hazard regression with time-varying covariates

Monday, January 28, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sahand Negahban

Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Ilker Yildirim

Reverse-Engineering Cognition with Causal Generative Models and Deep Neural Networks

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Megan Lickley

Title: Targeting climate science and data science at policies

Friday, February 5, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Lizhen Lin

Nonparametric Statistical Inference on non-Euclidean spaces

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Giovanni Motta

Locally Stationary Latent Factors

Monday, May 3, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Yuehaw Khoo

Solving PDEs with Deep Learning

Monday, April 8, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Santosh Vempala

Robust Statistics in High Dimension

Friday, October 26, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Peter Bühlmann

Heterogeneous Data: Invariance, Causality and Novel Robustness

Monday, January 27, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Tamara Broderick

Feature allocations, paintboxes, and probability functions

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

S&DS|CS JOINT SEMINAR, Berk Ustun

Designing for the Last Mile in Machine Learning

Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Omar Montasser

Title: What, When, and How can we Learn Adversarially Robustly?

Monday, November 13, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Shai Ben-David

A basic learning problem that is independent of the set theory ZFC axioms

Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Gourab Mukherjee

Minimax estimation of high-dimensional predictive densities

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Pragya Sur

A modern maximum-likelihood approach for high-dimensional logistic regression

Monday, February 21, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Yang Song

Title: Learning to Generate Data by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution

Monday, February 8, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Adam Bloniarz

High-dimensional regression in scientific work: improving precision of causal estimates using many covariates, and building encoding models of the extrastriate visual cortex

Friday, May 1, 2015 - 3:15pm to 4:30pm

Madan Puri

Asymptotic Normality, Rates of Convergence, and Large Deviation Probabilities for a Broad Class of Statistics

Monday, September 20, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Sumit Mukherjee

Title: Mean Field Approximation in Bayesian Linear Regression

Monday, January 29, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Max Simchowitz

Mathematical Foundations for Physical Agents

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

S&DS

First Statistics and Data Science Project Pitch

Monday, January 13, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

John Duchi

Computation, Communication, and Privacy Constraints on Statistical Estimation

Monday, March 2, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

S&DS|CS JOINT SEMINAR, Adji Bousso Dieng

Deep Probabilistic Graphical Modeling

Monday, February 13, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Matus Jan Telgarsky

Searching for the implicit bias of deep learning

Monday, October 2, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Ankur Moitra

Robustness Meets Algorithms

Monday, October 23, 2017 - 4:30pm to 5:45pm

Kathy McGroddy-Goetz

Transformational Power of Big Data & Cognitive Computing:Perspectives from IBM

Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yin Xia

Testing of Large Covariance Matrices

Monday, January 28, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Adam Charles

Neural data science: From recordings to theoretical models

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Chara Podimata

Title: Incentive-Aware Machine Learning for Decision Making

Monday, February 22, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Veronika Rockova

Fast Bayesian Factor Analysis via Automatic Rotations to Sparsity

Friday, September 4, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Alexander Meister

Asymptotic theory for the Rasch model

Monday, September 13, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Sham Kakade

Title: Reinforcement Learning in High Dimensional Systems

Monday, February 12, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Alex Wein

Fine-Grained Extensions of the Low-Degree Testing Framework

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Boaz Nadler

Crowdsourcing Regression: Making accurate predictions while knowing almost nothing

Friday, January 31, 2014 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Matan Gavish

Optimal Shrinkage of Singular Values for Matrix Denoising

Monday, September 14, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Michael Mahoney

Title: Dynamical systems and machine learning: combining in a principled way data-driven models and domain-driven models

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Sinho Chewi

Title: Towards a theory of complexity of sampling, inspired by optimization

Monday, February 3, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Adel Javanmard

Reasoning about uncertainty in high-dimensional data analysis

Monday, September 21, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Lihong Li

Title: Off-policy Estimation by the Regularized Lagrangian

Monday, February 20, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Zhimei Ren

Title: Stable Variable Selection with Knockoffs

Monday, November 27, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Mark B Gerstein

Transcriptome Mining: Tackling core issues related to gene regulation & also analyzing the "data exhaust" associated with this activity

Monday, January 14, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Cynthia Rudin

Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning

Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Alan Cowen

A Computational Approach to Emotion

Monday, February 7, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Ashesh Rambachan

Title: Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Elizabeth Mannshardt

Statistical Science and Policy at the EPA

Monday, November 16, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Karl Rohe

Network driven sampling; a critical threshold for design effects

Monday, September 27, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Nancy R. Zhang

Title: DNA Copy Number Profiling from Bulk Tissues to Single Cells

Monday, February 5, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Manolis Zampetakis

Analyzing Data with Systematic Bias: Truncation and Self-Selection

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Michael Jordan

Machine Learning: Dynamical, Economic and Stochastic Perspectives

Monday, January 20, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Arash Ali Amini

Bayesian inference as iterated random functions with applications to sequential inference in graphical models

Monday, September 28, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Rina Foygel Barber

Title: Is distribution-free inference possible for binary regression?

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Tailin Wu

Learning structured representations for accelerating scientific discovery and simulation

Monday, December 4, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

Learning Determinantal Point Processes and Applications

Monday, March 25, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Chris Volinsky

Shaping Cities of the Future using Mobile Data

Monday, March 4, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Joseph Dexter

Quantifying literary style and evolution

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Geoff Pleiss

Title: Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning and Probabilistic Modeling

Friday, April 8, 2016 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Ani Adhikari

Inferential Thinking: Data Science Education for Berkeley Undergraduates

Monday, November 2, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Mark Glickman

A stochastic rank ordered logit model for rating multi-competitor games and sports

Monday, October 25, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

John N. Wright

Title: Deep Networks and the Multiple Manifold Problem

Monday, April 29, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Reza Gheissari

Title: TBA

Monday, November 26, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Axel Munk

Nanostatistics

Monday, February 17, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Po-Ling Loh

Nonconvex methods for high-dimensional regression with noisy and missing data

Monday, October 19, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Dylan Foster

Separating Estimation from Decision Making in Contextual Bandits

Monday, February 27, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Lu Lu

Title: Physics-informed deep learning: Blending data and physics for learning functions and operators

Friday, November 10, 2017 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Cheng Mao

Permutation-based models for ranking from pairwise comparisons

Monday, February 4, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Matthew Reimherr

Association studies with functional phenotypes

Monday, February 11, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Abigail Z. Jacobs

The diffusion of opioids in the family

Monday, March 14, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Qi Lei

Title: Theoretical Foundations of Pre-trained Models

Monday, May 2, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yuchen Zhang

Provable algorithms for learning neural networks

Monday, April 4, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Muralidhar Haran

Statistical Methods for Studying Ice Sheets

Monday, November 1, 2021 - 4:00pm to 4:45pm

Lénaïc Chizat

Title: Analysis of gradient descent on wide two-layer ReLU neural networks

Monday, March 4, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Seth Flaxman

Inferential Machine Learning: Statistics, Data Science, and Public Policy

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Constantinos Daskalakis

Improving Generative Adversarial Networks using Game Theory and Statistics

Monday, April 7, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Garvesh Raskutti

Learning Bayesian networks based on sparsest permutations

Monday, October 26, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Samory Kpotufe

Some Recent Insights on Transfer-Learning

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Oscar Leong

Title: The Power and Limitations of Convexity in Data Science

Monday, November 6, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Zongming Ma

Optimal hypothesis testing for stochastic block models with growing degrees

Monday, February 11, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Bailey Fosdick

Modeling Heterogeneity within Multiway Array Data

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Eric Jonas

Exploiting computational scale for richer model-based inference

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Mark Sellke

Title: Algorithmic Thresholds in Mean-Field Spin Glasses

Monday, November 28, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Alexandra Chouldechova

Fair prediction with disparate impact: A study of bias in recidivism prediction instruments

Monday, October 26, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Daniel McDonald

On the Nyström and Column-Sampling Methods for the Approximate Principal Components Analysis of Large Data Sets

Monday, October 4, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Renato Polimanti

Title: Big Data Analytics Applied to the Molecular Basis of Human Traits and Diseases

Monday, March 25, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Johan Ugander

Harvesting randomness to understand computational social systems

Monday, October 22, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Joan Bruna

Learning Graph Inverse Problems with Geometric Neural Networks

Monday, March 24, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sofia Olhede

Network histograms and universality of blockmodel approximation

Monday, November 30, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Maithra Raghu

Insights from Deep Representations for Machine Learning Systems and Human Collaborations

Monday, March 6, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Theodor Misiakiewicz

New statistical and computational phenomena from deep learning

Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Trevor Campbell

Automated, Scalable Bayesian Inference with Theoretical Guarantees

Monday, February 18, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Daniel Manrique-Vallier

Estimation of Probabilities in Large Incomplete Contingency Tables Using Semi-Parametric Mixture Models

Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Jason Lee

On the Foundations of Deep Learning: SGD, Overparametrization, and Generalization

Monday, March 7, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Pang Wei Koh

Title: Reliable machine learning in the wild

Monday, October 31, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Guy Bresler

Learning a Tree-Structured Ising Model in Order to Make Predictions

Monday, September 14, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Joachim M. Buhmann

Information theory of algorithms: How precisely should we compute?

Monday, October 18, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Jonathan Niles-Weed

Title: Towards practical estimation of Brenier maps

Monday, April 22, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Bingxin Zhao

Analyzing genetic summary data: statistical models and platforms

Monday, September 17, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Andrew Barron

Accuracy of High-Dimensional Deep Learning Networks

Monday, April 14, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Marc Suchard

Learning from Big Data in biology

Monday, November 9, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Paul R. Rosenbaum

Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Masatoshi Uehara

Statistically Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning and Causal Machine Learning

Monday, January 29, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Zhou Fan

Eigenvalues in multivariate random effects models

Monday, February 25, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Anselm Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Nonparametric methods for spot volatility estimation under measurement noise

Monday, February 4, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Yian Ma

Bridging MCMC and Optimization

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Alex Wein

Title: Understanding Statistical-vs-Computational Tradeoffs via Low-Degree Polynomials

Monday, September 12, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Feng Liang

A Variational Algorithm for Bayesian Variable Selection

Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Ryan Tibshirani

Recent advances in selective inference

Monday, November 8, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Andre Wibisono

Title: On Bias and Discretization: Sampling under Isoperimetry via Langevin Algorithm

Monday, April 15, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Yiling Chen

Strategic Design to Improve Information Integrity

Monday, October 8, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yuxin Chen

Random initialization and implicit regularization in nonconvex statistical estimation

Monday, April 28, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Alexandre Tsybakov

Minimax Optimality in Nonparametric Statistics and Machine Learning

Monday, November 16, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Shibani Santurkar

How Do Our ML Models Succeed?

Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 10:30am to 11:30am

Ilias Zadik

The price of computational efficiency in high-dimensional estimation

Monday, February 26, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Aaditya Ramdas

Interactive algorithms for multiple hypothesis testing

Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Omer Tamuz

Learning and the Topology of Social Networks

Monday, February 25, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Andrej Risteski

Better understanding of modern paradigms in probabilistic models

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Brandon Stewart

Title: Latent Confounding Adjustment with Text: Opportunities and Limitations

Monday, April 3, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Vasileios Maroulas

Persistence diagrams classification using a point process distance: an application to signals

Friday, August 21, 2015 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Lizhong Peng

Tensor Eigenvalue and Its Applications

Monday, October 11, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Van Vu

Title: Reaching consensus: the power of few

Monday, April 8, 2024 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm

Arthur Gretton

Causal Effect Estimation with Context and Confounders

Monday, November 12, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

David M. Blei

The Blessings of Multiple Causes

Monday, September 8, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Teng Zhang

Marcenko-Pastur Law for Tyler's and Maronna's M-estimators

Monday, November 2, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Wei Hu

Opening the Black Box: Understanding Deep Learning via Analyzing Trajectories of Gradient Descent

Monday, March 27, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Nadav Cohen

What Makes Data Suitable for Deep Learning?

Monday, February 5, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Elisa Celis

Fairness and Diversity in Online Social Systems

Monday, September 10, 2012 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yi Jiang

Can Cell Morphology tell a story?

Monday, February 18, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Marinka Zitnik

Deep Learning for Network Biomedicine

Friday, April 1, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Ramina Sotoudeh

Title: “Partisans, Racialists, and Neutrals: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes towards Social Groups”

Monday, October 10, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Jiaming Xu

Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in clustering, sparse PCA, and submatrix localization

Monday, October 12, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Chao Gao

A Bayes Framework for Complex Linear Models

Monday, November 29, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Lester Mackey

Title: Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

Monday, December 10, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sasha Rakhlin

Towards understanding prediction performance of neural networks

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 2:30pm to 3:45pm

Takumi Saegusa

Weighted likelihood estimation under two-phase sampling

Monday, December 7, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Adel Javanmard

Tradeoffs in Adversarial Training

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Nati Srebro

Interpolation Learning and Overfitting with Linear Predictors and Short Programs

Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Evelyn Tang

A lens into cognition: The geometry and topology of neural systems

Monday, September 17, 2012 - 4:15pm to 6:30pm

Nicolai Meinshausen

Regularization for large-scale regression

Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Sébastien Bubeck

Online Lipschitz Selection

Monday, November 7, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

March Tian Boedihardjo

Sharp Matrix Concentration

Monday, September 26, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Po-Ling Loh

Modeling disease propagation in networks: Source-finding and influence maximization

Monday, November 9, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Edoardo M. Airoldi

Estimating causal effects in the presence of interfering units

Monday, December 6, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Chao Gao

Title: Minimax rates for sparse signal detection under correlation

Monday, October 15, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Anna C. Gilbert

Sparse Matrices in Sparse Analysis

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Rebecca Willett

Learning from Highly Correlated Features using Graph Total Variation

Monday, April 21, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Philippe Rigollet

The statistical price to pay for computational efficiency in sparse PCA

Monday, December 14, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Pang Wei Koh

Learning interactive and robust models from additional human supervision

Monday, April 3, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Sebastian Pokutta

Conditional Gradients in Machine Learning

Monday, February 12, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Jay Newby

Pixels to predictions: a unified framework for image analysis of particle motion in micron scale environments using mechanistic modeling and machine learning

Monday, September 24, 2012 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Regina Liu

Combining nonparametric inferences using data depth, bootstrap and confidence distribution

Monday, April 8, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Hilary Finucane

Identifying disease-relevant cell types from genome-wide association data

Monday, October 17, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Mengdi Wang

Title: Thompson Sampling-Guided Directed Evolution for Sequence Optimization

Monday, November 7, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sébastien Bubeck

New Results at the Crossroads of Convexity, Learning and Information Theory

Monday, November 30, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Abraham J. Wyner

Explaining the Success of AdaBoost and Random Forests as Interpolating Classifiers

Monday, November 15, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Mark Sellke

Title: Algorithmic Thresholds for Optimizing Mean-Field Spin Glasses

Monday, December 7, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yihong Wu

Polynomial approximation, moment matching and optimal estimation of the unseen

Monday, December 13, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Data Science Project Match

Monday, October 1, 2018 - 12:00pm

Jarrod Parker and Cameron Yick

YINS Industry Seminar: Enigma “Linking Data For The Greater Good”

Monday, September 15, 2014 - 4:15am

Aryeh (Leonid) Kontorovich

Good Margins Make Good Neighbors

Monday, October 12, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Aditi Raghunathan

Tradeoffs between Robustness and Accuracy

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Markus Pelger

Stripping the Discount Curve – a Robust Machine Learning Approach

Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Julia Fukuyama

Studies of the microbiome, the complex communities of bacteria that live in and around us, present interesting statistical problems.

Monday, October 1, 2012 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

David Madigan

Observational studies in healthcare: are they any good?

Monday, April 15, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Nisheeth Vishnoi

Physics-Inspired Algorithms for Sampling

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Data Science Project Match

Monday, October 17, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Jan Hannig

Generalized fiducial Inference: A Review

Friday, December 11, 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Third Annual 2015 Hartigan Lecture, Featured Speaker: Iain Johnstone @ 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd Floor, Rm 328

Likelihood ratios for eigenvalues in spiked multivariate models

Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Data Science Project Match

Monday, October 29, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Donna Spiegelman

Opportunities for Statistics in Implementation Science at Yale’s new Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS)

Monday, September 22, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Feng Fu

Mathematical Models of the Structure and Function of Social Networks

Monday, October 5, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Alekh Agarwal

Title: Structural Foundations of Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Monday, April 17, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Dan Yamins

A Fruitful Reciprocity: The Neuroscience-AI Connection

Monday, February 19, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Roy Lederman

Inverse Problems and Unsupervised Learning with applications to Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Monday, October 8, 2012 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yixin Fang

Stability Selection in Cluster Analysis

Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Yale S&DS Poster Session

Monday, October 3, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Denis Chetverikov

Title: Spectral and post-spectral estimators for grouped panel data models

Monday, October 24, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Elizaveta (Liza) Levina

Interpretable prediction models for network-linked data

Monday, April 25, 2016 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Ryan Tibshirani

Recent Advances in Trend Filtering

Monday, January 31, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Elizabeth Chin

Title: Data science and policy: Addressing inequity in health

Monday, November 5, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Mikael Kuusela

Locally Stationary Spatio-Temporal Interpolation of Argo Profiling Float Data

Monday, September 29, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Joan Bruna

From Scattering to Spectral Networks

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:00am

Morgane Austern

Title: Asymptotics of learning on dependent and structured random objects

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Philippe Rigollet, PhD

Statistical applications of Wasserstein gradient flows

Thursday, March 1, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Joshua Kalla

The Design of Field Experiments With Survey Outcomes: Applications to the Study of the Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact

Monday, October 15, 2012 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Tiefeng Jiang

Distributions of Angles in Random Packing on Spheres.

Monday, September 23, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Marc Lelarge

Asymptotic Bayes risk for Gaussian mixture in a semi-supervised setting

Monday, November 14, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Nikolaos Ignatiadis

Title: Confidence Intervals for Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Analysis

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 11:45am to 1:00pm

Andrea Montanari

How Well Do Local Algorithms Solve Semidefinite Programs?

Monday, October 27, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Stephen Leslie

Genetics and Geography: Using genomic data to infer the fine-scale population structure and population history of the people of the British Isles

Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Maggie Makar

Title: Machine learning and causality: Building efficient, reliable models for decision-making

Monday, May 8, 2023 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

S&DS annual Senior Thesis Poster Session

Monday, March 5, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Aylin Caliskan

The great power of AI: Algorithmic mirrors of individuals and society

Monday, April 8, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Jia Li

D2-Clustering and Distance-Based Mixture Modeling with Applications

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Richard Nickl

Statistical guarantees for the Bayesian approach to inverse problems

Monday, September 26, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Jason Altschuler

Title: Privacy of Noisy SGD

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 4:00pm

Nick Duffield

The cost and benefit of reducing Big Data size and complexity

Monday, October 6, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sham Kakade

Statistical Estimation of Latent Variable Models via Tensor Decompositions

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - 9:45am to 10:45am

Yuting Wei

Title: Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Reinforcement Learning

Monday, September 25, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Subhro Ghosh

Title: The unreasonable effectiveness of negative association

Monday, April 9, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Carey E. Priebe

On Spectral Graph Clustering

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Lester Mackey

Matrix Completion and Matrix Concentration

Monday, September 9, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Statistics and Data Science Project Pitch

Monday, September 19, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Ahmed El Alaoui

Title: Sampling from the SK measure via algorithmic stochastic localization

Friday, December 9, 2016 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Roman Vershynin

How to discover a hidden structure of a complex network

Monday, October 20, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sungjin Hong

An introduction to multiway component analysis (a.k.a. tensor decomposition)

Monday, January 18, 2021 - 9:45am to 10:45am

David Alvarez-Melis

Title: Ideal made real: machine learning with limited data and interpretable outputs

Monday, November 27, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Daniel J. Hsu

Title: Representational strengths and limitations of transformers

Monday, April 2, 2018 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Alex Belloni

Pivotal Estimation and Confidence Bands for High Dimensional Linear Models with Error-in-variables

Monday, April 29, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Hannes Leeb

On the conditional distributions of low-dimensional projections from high-dimensional data

Monday, December 9, 2019 - 3:45pm to 5:15pm

Statistics and Data Science Project Pitch

Monday, December 5, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Rina Foygel Barber

Title: Testing the stability of a black-box algorithm

Monday, April 24, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Joel A. Tropp

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank matrix optimization with optimal storage

Monday, November 17, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

David Dunson

Scalable Bayes via Barycenter Posteriors

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - 9:45am to 10:45am

Sameer Deshpande

Title: VCBART: Bayesian trees for varying coefficients

Monday, September 11, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Chris Harshaw

Title: Clip-OGD: An Experimental Design for Adaptive Neyman Allocation in Sequential Experiments

Friday, April 27, 2018 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Carl Zimmer

The Library of Babel: On Trying to Read My Genome

Monday, May 6, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Jing Zhang

Inferring Functional Interaction and Transition Patterns via Dynamic Bayesian Variable Partition Model / Multiple Bayesian Partition models

Monday, October 14, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Model Selection for Machine Learning of Doubly Robust Functionals

Monday, September 12, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Wen Sun

Title: Efficient Rich-observation Reinforcement Learning: A Representation Learning Approach

Friday, February 10, 2017 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Winston Lin

Agnostic Notes on Regression Adjustments to Experimental Data: Reexamining Freedman’s Critique

Monday, November 10, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Rafael Irizarry

Statistical Challenges in Epigenomics: Detecting Differentially Methylated Regions in the Presence of Unwanted Variability

Monday, March 29, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Jure Leskovec

Title: Mobility Networks for Modeling the Spread of COVID-19: Explaining infection rates and informing reopening strategies

Monday, November 13, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Yuejie Chi

Title: Sample Complexity of Q-learning: from Single-agent to Federated Learning

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Maxim Raginsky

Non-Convex Empirical Risk Minimization via the Langevin Algorithm

Monday, September 30, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Chris Volinsky

Shaping Cities of the Future using Mobile Data

Monday, October 7, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Avram J. Holmes and Julian Jara-Ettinger

TBA

Monday, October 24, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Qiaomin Xie

Title: Markovian Linear Stochastic Approximation: Bias and Extrapolation

Monday, February 20, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Nicholas Christakis

Social Network Experiments

Monday, October 13, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Peter Aronow

Estimating Average Causal Effects Under Interference (coauthored with Cyrus Samii, NYU)

Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Zhuoran Yang

Title: Demystifying the Sample Efficiency of (Deep) Reinforcement Learning

Monday, September 18, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Qiang Liu

Title: Learning flows for generating and transferring data: An embarrassingly simple approach

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Sanjeev Arora

Toward Theoretical Understanding of Deep Learning

Monday, October 7, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Roman Vershynin

Non-asymptotic theory of random matrices and covariance estimation

Monday, November 18, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Moulinath Banerjee

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

Monday, November 28, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Tselil Schramm

Title: Testing thresholds in high-dimensional random geometric graphs

Friday, February 24, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:45pm

Vishesh Karwa

Differentially Private Statistical Inference

Monday, December 1, 2014 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Quentin Berthet

Optimal Testing for Planted Satisfiability Problems

Monday, January 25, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Maarten Sap

Title: Positive AI with Social Commonsense Models

Monday, October 2, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Cyril Zhang

Title: On the "chemistry" of deep learning: lessons learned from training 10^8 networks on toy problems

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Nathan Srebro

Optimization's Hidden Gift to Learning: Implicit Regularization

Monday, September 9, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Richard Nickl

Nonparametric Inference and the Bernstein-von Mises phenomenon

Monday, September 30, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Maxim Raginsky

Neural SDEs: Deep Generative Models in the Diffusion Limit

Monday, October 31, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Ellen Zhong

Title: Machine learning for determining protein structure and dynamics from cryo-EM images

Friday, March 10, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:45pm

David Jurgens

People in context: Social understanding though linguistic and network analysis

Monday, December 8, 2014 - 4:15pm

Lawrence D. Brown

Semi-supervised Inference with numerical dependent variables for Means, Covariances and (maybe) Linear Prediction; General Theory

Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 9:45am to 10:45am

Dylan Foster

Title: Bridging Estimation and Decision Making

Monday, October 9, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Jinyoung Park

Title: Thresholds

Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 9:00am to Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 12:00pm

NSF Workshop for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Methodology, and Applications

Monday, September 23, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Tailen Hsing

Statistical inference of locally stationary spatial processes

Monday, November 4, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Anru Zhang

High-dimensional Tensor Regression Analysis

Monday, October 10, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Zongming Ma

Title: Matching and integration of datasets with low-rank signals and applications in single-cell data analysis

Monday, March 27, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Debra Fischer

Hunting for Earths in Noisy Data

Monday, January 19, 2015 - 1:15pm to 2:30pm

Joseph Neeman

Some phase transitions in the stochastic block model

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Hongyang Zhang

Title: New Advances in (Adversarially) Robust and Secure Machine Learning

Monday, October 23, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Cynthia Rush

Title: Exact Asymptotics with Approximate Message Passing and a Study of the Type 1-Type 2 Error Trade-off for SLOPE

Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 9:00am

Yale University Statistics Department 50th Anniversary

Monday, October 14, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Alekh Agarwal

Oracle inequalities for computationally adaptive model selection

Monday, September 16, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Ayelet Heimowitz

From raw data to stacked particles: data-driven methods for processing of low SNR experimental data in cryo-electron microscopy

Monday, December 12, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Joan Bruna

Title: On Symmetries and Feature Learning in Simple Neural Networks

Monday, April 17, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Frank C. Keil

The Curious Role of Mechanistic Explanations in Science and Engineering

Monday, January 12, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

William Fithian

Optimal Inference After Model Selection

Monday, April 19, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Po-Ling Loh

Title: A modern take on Huber regression

Monday, October 30, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Tim G. J. Rudner

Title: Regularization in Neural Networks: A Probabilistic Perspective

Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 9:00am to Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 5:00pm

International Conference on Statistics and Society

Monday, October 21, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Yihong Wu

Estimating High-dimensional Matrices: Convex Geometry and Computational Barriers

Monday, October 28, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Weijie Su

Gaussian Differential Privacy

Monday, December 19, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Jiaoyang Huang

Title: Efficient derivative-free Bayesian inference for large-scale inverse problems

Monday, March 6, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Mirella Lapata

Translating from Multiple Modalities to Text and Back

Monday, January 26, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Sivaraman Balakrishnan

Statistical and Computational Guarantees for the EM Algorithm

Monday, April 5, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Stephen Bates

Title: Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets

Monday, October 16, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Cheng Mao

Title: Learning One-Dimensional Geometry in Random Graphs

Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 9:00am to Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 5:00pm

Innovation and Inventiveness in Statistics Methodologies

Monday, November 4, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

John Lafferty

Exchanging Bips for Flops and Bits: Computational Tradeoffs in Statistical Estimation

Monday, November 11, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Galen Reeves

Mutual information in high-dimensional inference problems

Friday, October 14, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Foundations of Data Science (FDS) Kickoff Event

Friday, April 28, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:45pm

Peter Bickel

Hartigan Lecture: Density contour clusters and spectral clustering

Monday, February 2, 2015 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Anru Zhang

High-dimensional low-rank matrix recovery

Monday, April 12, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Fang Han

Title: Marginal and multivariate rank-based tests of independence

Monday, November 6, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Devavrat Shah

Title: On counterfactual inference with unobserved confounding via exponential family

Monday, December 8, 2014 - 4:15pm

Second Annual Hartigan Lecture Series: Featuring Lawrence D. Brown

Monday, December 2, 2013 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Edoardo M Airoldi

Design and analysis of experiments in the presence of network interference

Monday, December 2, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Applied Math/S&DS Joint Seminar, Speaker: Joe Kileel

Tensor Decompositions in Machine Learning

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Robert Schapire

Convex Analysis at Infinity: An Introduction to Astral Space

Monday, October 30, 2017 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Xi Chen

Statistical Inference for Model Parameters with Stochastic Gradient Descent